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Every so often, a band bursts onto the scene like the perfect storm. When conditions are right, lives will forever be changed and said band will — pardon the expression — fuck your shit up. This is what happened when Fishbone hit the scene during the early 1980s. Equipped with an arsenal of influences ranging from punk music to soul and funk, six black teenagers from Los Angeles (Angelo Moore, Norwood Fisher, Phillip “Fish” Fisher, Chris Dowd, Walter Kibby II and Kendall Jones) would carve a niche for themselves within the largely homogenized world of rock.

Despite recent hardships involving the passing of bassist Mike Alexander, Evile chugs forward to do what they know best in hopes of earning a living and honoring those who have shaped them to their current status. Considerable protégées to the thrash pioneers in Metallica, the shredders in Evile neglect to lose momentum in the weeks to come before the album release. Lead guitarist, Ol Drake, gives us a bit of insight to the thrash throwback world of Evile.

If shoegaze doom metal was a genre, Junius would most certainly be the kings of it. As I can't say enough positive things about the band's new album, Reports From the Threshold of Death, and space is limited, it's probably just best to let the music do the talking. You can stream a brand new track from Junius, titled "A Universe Without Stars," below.

Few bands are as loved and loathed as Hinder — drummer Cody Hanson, vocalist Austin Winkler, bassist Mike Rodden and guitarists Joe Garvey and Mark King — and they wouldn’t have it any other way. For every negative review the band has received, they are adored tenfold by millions of fans who embrace their gritty, yet melodic, hard rock sound.

Joseph Campbell, one of the world's foremost authorities on mythology, once outlined in a simple paragraph the plot followed by every classic adventure story from The Odyssey to Star Wars. "A hero," Campbell explained, "ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this adventure with the power to bestow gifts on his fellow man."

Here are more behind-the-scenes photos from our upcoming 2012 Holiday Review Guide, which is coming to newsstands and the Guitar World online store in November. We'll be rolling out several more behind-the-scenes photo galleries up until the newsstand date, November 22.